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Le jour des rois
A refined, intelligent and occasionally bitter comedy which derives its subject-matter from an everyday situation which is far from spectacular at first sight. Three elderly…Published on: -
Lola
A new copy in bracing black & white of Jacques Demy’s first full-length feature film. Lola is programmed as an homage to the deceased master…Published on: -
Lune froide
A striking Bukowski film which more than does justice to the sensational melancholy of the world described with alcohol, sperm and blood.In this grim comedy,…Published on: -
Paris s’éveille
A tasteful big-city drama in which the stylish pictures are especially impressive. David Rooney (Variety): ‘Pic’s visual style has nonstop electricity’. Rooney had just as…Published on: -
L’ayant-droit
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Premier d’amour
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La femme qui pleure
In La femme qui pleure Jacques Doillon plays the male lead, called Jacques. The French film magazine Positif was of the opinion (in a review…Published on: -
L’annonciatrice
In this short magic-realistic feature with an undercooled form of black humour, a man and wife travel together to a remote spot in the Alps.…Published on: -
La cabale des oursins
A funny, ironic and absurd ‘pseudo-documentary’ in which Luc Moullet himself plays the role of reporter who investigates the mysterious terrils, the stone hills which…Published on: -
Les émotions hèlvétiques
A plain and pugnacious choice for sentimentality, kitsch and melodrama (in which the hand of scenario writer Eric de Kuyper is recognisable), which destroys the…Published on: